No 08
The Five Minute Journal works because it asks for almost nothing: three things you are grateful for and three things that would make today good in the morning, and three good things that happened at night. The pages are structured so there is no blank page to stare at, and that is the reason this one gets finished when other journals stop at page nine.
It is the gift for a graduate starting a job, a friend who has mentioned therapy or burnout, a partner you want to give something personal without it being heavy. For a remote worker it becomes the bookend to the day that an office used to provide.
Six months of undated pages in a linen hardcover with a ribbon, so it starts whenever they do. There is a weekly challenge and a short guide up front. It costs about what two notebooks do and is the one that gets used.
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